DB Multiverse

State­ment of Intent

(or how the author jus­ti­fies his project by telling his life)

Hello every­one!

The story that follows is a crossover project between two uni­vers­es: that of Spirou (largely created with André Fran­quin, who added his hero Gomer Goof) and that of Dragon Ball (created by Akira Toriya­ma). Behind this whim­si­cal idea of mixing these two uni­vers­es lies, above all, a desire to bring Franco-Belgian comics and manga closer to­geth­er.
On one hand, for the sake of drawing prac­tice (being a fan of pen and ink, com­bin­ing these two graphic styles is quite ed­u­ca­tion­al). On the other hand, to show that these two genres of comics can "com­mu­ni­cate" with each other. Let me explain:

When I go to comic book fes­ti­vals, I notice that manga and Franco-Belgian comics are always in two rather sep­a­rate, dis­tinct spaces. This is just my per­son­al opinion, of course, but when I go into the Franco-Belgian comics scene, the "target au­di­ence" seems to have a rather strong opinion about manga, in­flu­enced by some clichés already cir­cu­lat­ing in the 90s. Al­though manga is more rec­og­nized these days, it's largely thanks to the youth of that same era who es­tab­lished it in France. But even among young people, there seems to be a lack of in­ter­est in Franco-Belgian comics (for similar reasons, in­ci­den­tal­ly). My goal isn't to change peo­ple's mind­sets, but if you're reading this knowing only one of the two worlds, I hope these chap­ters will spark your cu­rios­i­ty to dis­cov­er the other. There you have it.

And, as men­tioned earlier, the pages were drawn with India ink and pen (with a few touch-ups, of course). This is pri­mar­i­ly a per­son­al drawing ex­er­cise, which I'll try to do monthly (one chapter per month), while also working on other things (feel free to check out my In­sta­gram, gauvain_s, for more). Think of this as a spin-off (so not canon...yeah) that takes place after chapter 69 (volume 6) of Dragon Ball and some­where after volume 19 of Spirou. I've made sure every­one can un­der­stand it without having read every­thing. Let me know what you think, and enjoy!